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Magnetically driven mass accretion in protoplanetary disks plays a crucial role in understanding disk evolution and planet formation. However, the $\alpha$ prescription lacks a direct connection to physical processes, and no systematic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Haruhi Enomoto , Shoji Mori , Satoshi Okuzumi

According to the standard thin disc theory, it is predicted that the radiation-pressure-dominated inner region of a thin disc is thermally unstable, while observations suggest that it is common for a thin disc of more than 0.01 Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Yu Zhao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Li Xue , Shuang-Liang Li

The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate the vertical magnetic field in the centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor V. Igumenshchev

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in accretion discs is an important problem because of its role in the launching of jets and winds and in determining the intensity of turbulence. In this paper, we develop a formalism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

By taking into account the local energy balance per unit volume between the viscous heating and the advective cooling plus the radiative cooling, we investigate the vertical structure of radiation pressure-supported accretion disks in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-31 Wei-Min Gu

In this paper we report on the formation of magnetically-levitating accretion disks around supermassive black holes. The structure of these disks is calculated by numerically modelling tidal disruption of magnetized interstellar gas clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evghenii Gaburov , Anders Johansen , Yuri Levin

We use axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the launching and collimation of jets emerging from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of accreting magnetized stars. Our analysis shows that the matter flows into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-25 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Richard V. Lovelace

We present global 3D MHD simulations of geometrically thin but unstratified accretion disks in which a near Keplerian disk rotates between two bounding regions with initial rotation profiles that are stable to the MRI. The inner region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adriane Steinacker , John C. B. Papaloizou

Global disk simulations provide a powerful tool for investigating accretion and the underlying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). Using them to predict accurately quantities such as stress,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 John F. Hawley , Sherwood A. Richers , Xiaoyue Guan , Julian H. Krolik

We discuss results of global 3D MHD simulations of accretion on to a rotating magnetized star with a tilted dipole magnetic field, where the accretion is driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). The simulations show that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

We present the effects of ordered large scale magnetic field on the structure of supercritical accretion flow in the presence of outflow. In the cylindrical coordinates ($r, \varphi,z$), We write the 1.5 dimensional, the steady state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Maryam Ghasemnezhad , Shahram Abbassi

Detailed calculations of the physical structure of accretion disk boundary layers, and thus their inferred observational properties, rely on the assumption that angular momentum transport is opposite to the radial angular frequency gradient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-25 Martin E. Pessah , Chi-kwan Chan

The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of accretion disks threaded by a weak vertical magnetic field, with a particular focus on the interplay between MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Sebastien Fromang , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We present a systematic, analytical study of geometrically thin, optically thick accretion disc solutions for magnetized turbulent flows, with an alpha-like viscosity prescription. Under the only assumptions that (1) Magneto-Rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Merloni

We study the flow structure in 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion onto Sagittarius A* via the magnetized winds of the orbiting Wolf-Rayet stars. These simulations cover over 3 orders of magnitude in radius to reach…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

Convection has been discussed in the field of accretion discs for several decades, both as a means of angular momentum transport and also because of its role in controlling discs' vertical structure via heat transport. If the gas is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Loren E. Held , Henrik N. Latter

Self-similar and semi-analytical solutions are found for the height-averaged equations govern the dynamical behavior of a polytropic, self-gravitating disk under the effects of winds, around the nascent object. In order to describe time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shahram Abbassi , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Mohsen Shadmehri

We simulate an isolated, magnetised Milky Way-like disc galaxy using a self-consistent model of unresolved star formation and feedback, evolving the system until it reaches statistical steady state. We show that the quasi-steady-state…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz

In this paper, we present the complete structure of a quasi-Keplerian thin accretion disk with an internal dynamo around a magnetized neutron star. We assume a full quasi-Keplerian disk with the azimuthal velocity deviating from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Isaac Habumugisha , Edward Jurua , Solomon B. Tessema , Anguma K. Simon

We review some recent results of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations considering the evolution of geometrically thin disks around a central black hole. Thin disk GR-MHD simulations complement the widely used MAD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Indu K. Dihingia , Christian Fendt